Dough-trimmer.



PATENTEDMAY 9, 1905.x

W. G. BDRRY.

DOUGH TRIMMER.

APPLICATION FILED APB.16,1904.

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IVILLIAM O. HURRY, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

DOUCaI-I THIWHWEH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 1 letters Patent No. 789,485, dated May 9,1905.

Application filed A /ril 15, 1904. Serial No. 203,387.

To all lull/0171, it min/y concern: 7 Be it known that I, IVILLIAM (J.Henry, a citizen ol the United States, residing at Allegheny, in thecounty of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented ordiscovered new and useful Improvements in Dough-Tl? rimmers, of whichthe following is a specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a top plan view of mydough-trimmer. Fig. II is a side elevation, and Fig. III is a verticalsection on line III III of Fig. II.

This invention relates generally to the art of trimming dough, and moreparticularly to the trimming off of the overhanging edge of doughsurrounding the rim of a pie-plate and before the pie is placed in theoven to bake.

In large bakeries it is customary to expe-' dite the handling of pics asfast as possible, and the machines now in use for trimming the surplusdough from the edge of the pieplates are both cumbersome and expensive.My device is simple, inexpensive, and easy to handle, besides the doughis not stretched from the plate in the cutting o'l'l of the surplus, butretains its shape more evenly than those trimmed by machines now in use.

Reference being had to the drawings, 1 represents a support for the top2, which top is preferably composed of the end supports 3 23, carryingthe slotted gages 4 4: and the working board 5.

6 6 represent flat strips extending across the opening 7 and are set ontheir edges in slots 8 8 of the end supports 3 3.

9 is a flat bar set on its edge and secured in two of the slots 01 gages41: 4.

10 is a strip used in applying pressure on the rim of a pie-plate.

11 is. a shelf or receptacle having a back board 12 and is supported bythe supports 1 1.

13 represents a pic-plate with the surplus dough 14L partly cut awayfrom the edge of the rim of the plate.

In the operation of my invention the pieplate 13, with the surplus doughextending over its rim, is placed on the strips 6 6. Strip 10 is thenpressed against a portion of the edge of the rim of the plate, whichforces the plate toward the vertical side of the bar 9 and against whicha portion of the edge of the rim bears. The dough on the edge of the rimis squeezed against both the strip 10, held by the operator, and bar 9,until it is severed at those points from the edge of the rim of theplate. The operator then moves the strip 10 toward the left, while stillmaintaining the pressure on the edge of the rim, which causes the plate13 to travel along the strips 6 6 toward the left in the drawings andrevolve. The revolving of the plate 13 between the vertical sides of thestationary bar 9 and the moving strip 10 while a pressure is hearingagainst the rim at those points causes the dough to be squeezed andsevered from the edge of the rim. As will be noted from the drawings, ahalf-revolution of the plate will trim the dough from the edge for themoving strip 10 and the stationary bar 9 squeeze against the verticaledge of the rim opposite to each other, and each cuts away half of thedough from the periphery of the rim of the revolving plate. The surplusdough as it is cut away falls through the opening 7 and onto the shelf11. If desired, the bar 9 can be adjusted to suit smaller size plates orthe strip 6 nearest the working board 5 can be re moved. In either eventthe same results would be obtained. The shelf 11 could be on an inclineto aid the falling dough to pass from under the supports I 1, or anendless conveyor could pass beneath the opening for that purpose.

It is evident that many modifications may be made without departing fromthe spirit of my invention.

IVhat I claim is- 1. In adough-trimmer, a supporting-frame, a centralopening therein, a plurality of separated plate-sumiorters extendingacross said opening, a stationary member and a movable member, saidmembers adapted to bear against and trim the surplus dough from theperipheral edge of the rim of a revolving plate.

2. In a douglrtrimmer, a supporting-lrame having a central openingtherein, a plurality of separated plate-supporters extending across saidopening, a stationary member capable of adjustment and a movable member,said memsaid members adapted to bear against and trim the surplus doughfrom the peripheral IO edge of the rim of a revolving plate.

WILLIAM G. BURRY;

\Vitnesses:

\V. H. STERRITT, W. L. BURRY.

